Thursday night at 9 pm Eastern time, Jerry Buxton, N0JY the vice president for engineering at AMSAT will be on the show to talk about the process of building amateur radio satellites, and the latest on the newest bird, Fox 1D which just arrived in space last week! Jerry will take your questions LIVE.

Tune into Ham Talk Live! Thursday night at 9 pm Eastern time by going to hamtalklive.com. When the audio player indicates LIVE, just hit the play button! If you miss the show live, you can listen on demand 24/7/365.25 also at hamtalklive.com; or a podcast version is on nearly all podcast sites a few minutes after the live show is over. Some sites include Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, SoundCloud, and iHeart Podcasts; and it's also available on YouTube.

Be sure to CALL in with your questions and comments by calling 812-NET-HAM-1 live during the show, or by Skype. Our username is hamtalklive. You can also tweet your questions before or during the show to @HamTalkLive.

We help Jerry when he needs us to. Prior to launching these birds when we are out if we know he has the bird to test prior to launch we chat back and forth with him through the satellite he is about to launch. We listen in quite regularly when AO-91 does its fly by. If you have an interest in satellites like we do you should listen in.

We help Jerry when he needs us to. Prior to launching these birds when we are out if we know he has the bird to test prior to launch we chat back and forth with him through the satellite he is about to launch. We listen in quite regularly when AO-91 does its fly by. If you have an interest in satellites like we do you should listen in.

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And for the rest of us that aren't in the area of Granbury, Texas, Jerry has been known to have live video streams of some of the satellite testing on his workbench. You don't get to see that with many (most?) satellite projects. The video streams also provide Jerry ways to document his testing, before the satellites are deemed ready for launch, but it is fun to sit back and watch what's going on.